Celebrate World Music Day 2023!

Dolly Parton began singing professionally at age 10, and has gone on to write and perform almost 3,000 songs. Inspired by her father’s inability to read and write, Dolly founded the Imagination Library to give books to children ages 0-5 years. Since 1995, the Imagination Library has gifted more than 200,000,000 books to children!

In honor of World Music Day 2023, learn more about musicians like Dolly Parton, Jimi Hendrix, Selena, and “V” from BTS, by checking out these great books:

Dazzlin' Dolly: The Songwriting, Hit-Singing, Guitar-Picking Dolly Parton by Suzanne Slade

Elvis Presley (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Song for Jimi: The Story of Guitar Legend Jimi Hendrix by Charles R Smith

Queen of Tejano Music: Selena by Silvia López

BTS: The Ultimate Fan Book by Malcolm Croft

Mary's Idea by Chris Raschka

The Girl Who Heard the Music: How One Pianist and 85,000 Bottles and Cans Brought New Hope to an Island by Marni Fogelson

The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music by Roberta Flack

Playing at the Border: A Story of Yo-Yo Ma by Joanna Ho

The Greatest Song of All: How Isaac Stern United the World to Save Carnegie Hall by Megan Hoyt

Building an Orchestra of Hope (Stories from Latin America) by Carmen Oliver

Willie Nelson (Little Golden Book Biographies) by Geof Smith

Beyonce (Little Golden Book Biographies) by Lavaille Lavette

Shakira (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Selena Gomez (Hispanic Star) by Claudia Romo Edelman